# SRK, Ajay Devgn, Tiger Shroff get notices over Vimal ads 2026-08-16T20:31:15+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration has issued show-cause notices to Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn, and Tiger Shroff over their advertisements for Vimal Elaichi. The FDA alleges the ads are a surrogate promotion for Vimal Pan Masala, which is banned in the state because it causes oral cancer. The notice says the expression 'Vimal Elaichi' creates an association with the prohibited brand and may mislead consumers. The Times of India reports that India accounts for about 30% of global oral cancer cases, with over 1.43 lakh new cases and nearly 80,000 deaths annually. Dr Pankaj Chaturvedi of the Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer said the actors have made huge profits from these products and caused mass addiction. The celebrities have 15 days to respond, discontinue their participation, remove the ads from social media, and furnish details of their endorsement contracts. ## Coverage - 123telugu.com - timesofindia.indiatimes.com This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-08-16T22:42:50+00:00. Tags: Ajay Devgn, Maharashtra FDA, Shah Rukh Khan, Tiger Shroff, Vimal Pan Masala Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/srk-ajay-devgn-tiger-shroff-get-notices-over-gutka-ads/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/srk-ajay-devgn-tiger-shroff-get-notices-over-gutka-ads/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/